Computational Biologist - Mississauga, Canada - Tekskills

Tekskills

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Mississauga, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Title :
Computational Biologist (OBD)

Location :
Mississauga, ON(canada) (Remote as of now then On-site)

Duration : 12+ Months

Project Role:

We seek a highly motivated Scientist within Oncology Biomarker Development (OBD) Data Science to support biomarker and diagnostic development efforts focusing on Genentech's Oncology pipeline.

Education:

PhD in a relevant field (e.g., molecular biology, cancer biology, immunology, genomics, or bioinformatics).
Postdoctoral experience in Computational Biology / Bioinformatics strongly preferred.
Master's Degree in Bioinformatics / Computational Biology may be considered if extensive experience in cancer genomics and/or cancer immunotherapy research.

Required Skills:

Strong computational and analytical skills, including high level of proficiency in scientific programming (R language and Bio conductor packages preferred) and familiarity with Unix environments
Experience with analysis of high throughput NGS data including RNAsequence data and/or DNA Sequence data (WES/WGS/ctDNA)
Experience with integrating genomic and clinical data to identify associations with outcomes
Familiarity with public genomic databases such as TCGA, COSMIC, etc...
Good data science practice and understanding of data complexity
Good understanding of cancer and/or immunotherapy and an interest to learn more.
Excellent communication, advanced English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

Experience with integration of multimodal genomics data
Experience with AI/ML methods
Experience analyzing liquid biopsy data (ctDNA, etc.)
Experience analyzing singlecell transcriptomics data
Experience analyzing spatial transcriptomics data

Job Type:
Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Schedule:

8 hour shift
Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

Mississauga, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

- computational and analytical skills: 9 years (required)

R language: 9 years (required)
AI/ML methods: 9 years (required)

- analyzing spatial transcriptomics data: 9 years (required)
- analyzing single-cell transcriptomics data: 9 years (required)
- analyzing liquid biopsy data (ctDNA, etc.): 9 years (required)
- integration of multimodal genomics data: 9 years (required)
- understanding of cancer and/or immunotherapy: 7 years (required)

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